Senior SEO and AI Search Strategist

Virayo is hiring a Senior SEO and AI Search Strategist. Remote, US-based, $120-140k

This is our second strategist seat. You'd own a book of B2B SaaS accounts, paired with an account manager, with three writers executing against your strategy.

What's different about Virayo from most agencies is that we're engineering-led. As a strategist, you'll have Virayo AI answering questions about our clients on demand. VAI crawls sites, tracks rankings and prompts, and audits how the models describe each brand, continuously, on every account. The data is exposed through MCP, so you can work from Claude or agents of your own.

Your time goes to strategy, the client, and the judgment calls no agent can make. Our GEO framework is still being written as we analyze data, test, and iterate. You'd join and help us author it.

Our team is seven people. About 30 paid days off in your first year. No one here works crazy schedules, and I don't think good strategy comes out of that.

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Jarod Ferguson, CEO

Full-time (remote), US-based

$120,000 to $140,000

• Medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)
• 30 paid days off in your first year

We are seeking a senior-level AI Search Strategist (Generative/Answer Engine Optimization) to lead the development and execution of strategies to achieve visibility within AI Overviews (AIOs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.

This role is both strategic and client-facing. You will serve as the primary point of contact for a portfolio of B2B SaaS brands and be responsible for measurable business results, increasing the likelihood that our clients' authoritative content is retrieved, mentioned, and cited across generative search platforms. To succeed here, you must be skilled at conducting in-depth research, identifying new GEO/AEO opportunities, and translating insights into clear, actionable strategies focused on content strategy, structured data, and digital PR.

You will communicate these strategies directly to clients, lead calls, and provide regular performance updates.

You will not do this alone. An account manager is paired with you across the book, our writers execute against your strategy, and Virayo AI handles the recurring crawling, monitoring, and competitive analysis. Your time goes to interpretation, client leadership, and the judgment calls automation cannot make.

This role requires a high level of autonomy. You will continuously use industry research, competitive analysis, and generative engine testing to refine and evolve strategies. Each quarter, you will build and present a Q  deck alongside your account manager, outlining performance and strategic recommendations, including the brand's performance in LLM-driven search results.

You must have expert-level, hands‑on SEO experience, including technical site audits, keyword research, internal linking, backlink analysis, and close collaboration with content teams to build content roadmaps that align with core business goals.

You will be accountable for both the client relationship and the engagement results.

We are a B2B SaaS AI search agency. Virayo spun out as its own company in 2018, though the founding team has worked together since 2012.

Seven people. You will be our second strategist, working directly with our co‑founders. You will be paired with an account manager across your book, and three writers carry production, so your time stays on strategy. This is a new seat, and we are expanding.

Our clients are niche vertical category leaders: B2B SaaS companies between $20M and $250M in revenue, usually 100 to 1,000 employees with a decade or more in market.

Virayo AI is our platform, and as a strategist here, you run on it. One agent, three layers, working a weekly loop on every account. It crawls the site and tracks rankings, audits how four LLMs describe the brand both with and without web retrieval, and guides content creation against quality gates. Each layer feeds the next. A closed loop, not a dashboard.

The audit work that eats most of a strategist's week is already done when you sit down. Beyond that, you can ask it anything about an account and get an answer back. How visibility is trending against a named competitor. Which pages lost clicks this week. Where the citation gaps sit and what to do about them. Strategy reports, competitive maps, and buyer insights come back as a first analytical pass for you to validate and turn into decisions.

Every signal is exposed through MCP, so you can work from Claude, ChatGPT, or agents of your own. Clients log into the same platform.

Your time goes to strategy, the client, and the judgment calls the agent cannot make.

The GEO framework we run on every client is still being written. You will help write it, and you will have a direct line to the team building Virayo AI.

• Own client results and relationships from start to finish. This includes strategy, planning, and execution.
• Use client feedback, competitive…